Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also -at a distance of many thousand miles...
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Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also -at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century -a Great American Novel.This is Ned Kelly s true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. To the authorities, this son of di
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